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Top Personal Firewalls

Long term viewers of this blog will know that I am keen on personal security from the computer perspective and also that I am keen on windows users installing personal firewalls.
Firstly I guess, a definition of personal is required here.  By this I simply mean it is a software based firewall that sits on the [...]

Customer Service All Gone South

[tags]customer service, dlink[/tags]
I’ve long been an advocate of good customer service and as someone whom has worked in service industries all my working life I have to say that it really isn’t that hard.
Let me repeat that: Good customer service is not difficult.
There are, as with anything, several tricks to it but they all boil [...]

Taking Offense - Should We?

Recently I posted a comment to a blog. I left a way for the blog owner to be able to contact me. They did that and took me to task over my comment. I replied and clarified and all is now happy and peaceful again twixt they and me.
The issue here, I guess, was my [...]

Top Tips on Securing Your PC

[tags]PC, Security, Top, firewall, av, wifi[/tags]
When you get a new Windows PC or re-install an old one from scratch there are things you should do to secure the box and your habits. These are the ones I semi-automatically do or think about when going through this process. They fall into several categories with sub-point(s) to [...]

Internet Monitoring - Part 3

[tags]internet, monitoring, children, safety, security, guidelines, parents, software[/tags]
This post is fast becoming a monster - am I saying too much or is this helping? I certainly don’t know but I trust that this content is helping some out there. Part 1 which dealt with guidelines is here and Part 2 which ended up covering just [...]

Internet Monitoring - Part 1

Following on from my post about keeping our children safe the other day I wanted to continue on that theme but drill it down to more specifics on how or why we should monitor our children. It’s likely I’ll split this article into a why we should (or shouldn’t) and then do a follow up [...]

Is God Great?

[tags]Dawkins, God, great[/tags]This seems to be a very popular question to debate at present - with the recent release of books from the likes of Dawkins and Hitchens. However, the question I want to ask is why is it that we humans can only feel good when we are attacking something or someone else?
Both Dawkins [...]

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